Nice Cook Books photos
A few nice cook books images I found:
Image from page 147 of “Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit” (1908)
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Title: Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Biggle, Jacob
Subjects: Gardening Vegetable gardening
Publisher: Philadelphia, W. Atkinson Co.
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t of ginseng growing. Herbs.—These are of three kinds—pot herbs forflavoring, sweet herbs and medicinal herbs. It is agreat pity that herbs are now seldom raised in thehome garden. The use ofthem in medicine is perhapsnot so great in these dayswhen a doctor can be readilycalled, but in the old times nohousewife was without agoodly show of them in theyard, and she dried themcarefully for winter use. Norare herbs used nowadays somuch for flavoring in cook-ing; and, when they are de-sired, the pressed leaves arebought at the druggists. The home-grown article isfar better than money can buy. A hom.e with even.a small strip of land can find place for some of theseplants which are so valuable. Herbs delight in a rich, mellow soil. Put themin a corner by themselves where they will not inter-fere with plowing, etc. When once started, little ifany cultivation is needed except to keep out weeds.Sow seeds early in spring in shallow drills aboutIwo feet apart; when up a few inches thin out to
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PUTTING AWAY HERBS FORWINTER USE MISCELLANEOUS a foot or more apart. Herbs should be cut on adry day just before they come into full blossom,tied in bunches and hung up in the attic or spreadthinly on a floor where they can dry quickly. Ofcourse cuttings for daily use, green, may be madeat any time, but too severe cutting weakens the plants.Seedsmen sell plants, ready to set, of some of thebetter-known herbs. Many of the perennial kindsmay be propagated by dividing the roots—which isa good thing to do every few years; and, when doingso, discard the old, run-out part of each clump. Among the better-known perennial herbs are thefollowing: Balm, catnip, fennel, horehound, hyssop,lavender (not hardy too far north), sweet marjoram,pennyroyal, peppermint, rosemary, rue, sage, spear-mint, tansy, tarragon, thyme, winter savory, worm-wood. Anise, coriander, summer savory and sweetbasil are annuals. Caraway and dill are biennials.A winter mulch of straw or leaves is a good thingfor the perenn
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Image taken from page 286 of ‘[The Voyages of Captain James Cook. Illustrated … With an appendix, giving an account of the present condition of the South Sea Islands, &c.]’
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Title: "[The Voyages of Captain James Cook. Illustrated … With an appendix, giving an account of the present condition of the South Sea Islands, &c.]", "Logs and Journals. Collected Editions"
Author: COOK, James – the Circumnavigator
Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10003.d.9."
Volume: 01
Page: 286
Place of Publishing: London & New York
Date of Publishing: 1852
Publisher: John Tallis & Co.
Issuance: monographic
Identifier: 000772649
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